Category Archives: Canadian Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The U.S. government on Monday declassified a second set of records relating to human rights abuses committed during Argentina’s 1976-1983 dictatorship. The release is p...

DENVER - A federal judge dealt a severe setback Monday to a longshot plan to deny Donald Trump the presidency through the Electoral College, refusing to suspend a Colorado law requiring the state̵...

WELLESLEY, Mass. - A lawyer for one of two college students barred from their campus for taunting students at Hillary Clinton’s alma mater in Massachusetts is demanding an apology after the ban ...

BOSTON - A young humpback whale that was tangled up in fishing gear off Boston for several days has been freed. The Center for Coastal Studies says its Marine Animal Entanglement Response team freed t...

PHILADELPHIA - In a story Dec. 12 about the sentencing of former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, The Associated Press reported that Fattah took a $1 million loan in 2007 from Sallie Mae’s chairman. The ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Through a dozen witnesses on Tuesday, federal prosecutors reconstructed the activities of Dylann Roof in the months leading up to night he went to a black Charleston church and shot...

BOSTON - Four churches have withdrawn a federal lawsuit that claimed a state law prohibiting discrimination against transgender people in public restrooms violated their constitutional right to religi...

ST. LOUIS - A former St. Louis police sergeant was ordered Monday to spend a year and a day in federal prison for stealing more than $80,000 from the organization for black police officers that he onc...

VICTORIA - A farmer in northeast British Columbia is still hopeful that he’ll get to stay in his home, despite an announcement by BC Hydro that the company plans to seize the property to make wa...

EMERSON, Ga. - Almost a year after a groundbreaking that never happened, Avatron Smart Park, a $750-million technology-centred theme park planned to be built in Emerson announced Monday that it is shu...